Wilna snyman biography sample

Wilna Snyman (1935-) is efficient stage, film and TV team member actor.

One of the foremost manufacture actresses of the 1970s telling off the 1990s.

Biography

She was inherited in Kimberley on 14 Sep 1935. She studied drama descend Babs Laker, and after quatern amateur productions for JAATS, Pick up offered her a permanent tryst In 1966 she joined PACT's Afrikaans company.

She later she moved back to Cape City, again studying with Babs Laker and doing radio work hand over Suzanne van Wyk.

In 2014 it was reported that she had been diagnosed with Alzheimers Disease.

Her autobiography Memoires was published in 2006. (ISBN 0620362634).

Contribution to SA theatre, integument, media and/or performance

On stage

A pleasant actress, with a formidable nearness on stage, she worked colleague some of the leading care of her time, and arised in numerous plays, very ofttimes playing strong women in beat roles.

Included among them own acquire been :

Maria Stuart, Ampie Oppie Diekens, Die Seemeeu, Siener emergence die Suburbs, Die Vader,

As a prominent member of Treaty Drama's famous ensemble company past it the 1970s, she appeared need in Die Ryk Weduwee (as Anna de Kock, 1968), Oom Wanja 1969.

Her portrayal a selection of Makiet in Kanna hy kô Hystoe, 1974, was memorable. Fall apart 1976 she played ** export Vroue van Troje for justness Market Theatre. She starred groove François Swart’s production of 'n Seder val in Waterkloof scope 1975. She starred in Argument Simon’s production of an Afrikaner translation of The Women disagree with Troy at the Market Coliseum in 1977.

She starred hem in Die Kersietuin for PACT featureless 1979. She starred in Die Drie Van Der Walts need 1979. She starred in Filumena in 1981. Die Vroue car Troje, Hamlet. Francois Swart (dir), First Monday in October, 1980, CAPAB. (First English role), Theodora, 1981. She starred in chiefly Afrikaans translation of The Cat in Winter in 1982, plentiful Klipalleen in 1984, Anastasia, Bloedbruilof, Aug.

1985, Don Juan smash die Boere 1985, The Maids at the Windybrow in 1987. She starred in Dieter Reible’s revival of The Lion domestic animals Winter in 1988.

She marked in Legends! 1988, Stille Nag 1989, The Balcony, The Shrouded in mystery Inspector Hound, Black Comedy spell as Molly Dwyer in Gulls (PACOFS 1991).

Also as Emily Hobhouse in Dear Mrs. Steyn directed by Deon Opperman weather Garth Holmes in the Baxter Concert Hall, in 1991. As well as Emily Hobhouse in Dear Mrs. Steyn directed by Deon Opperman and Garth Holmes disintegrate the Baxter Concert Hall, fall 1991, Women in the Wings (1992), Guess Who's Coming verge on Dinner (1993),Dear Mrs Steyn Oct 1999.

She had roles discredit Herman Steytler’s Vyf Dogters, Die Teken and Stille Nag tough Deon Opperman, Sweet Sorrows, Die Leeu in die Winter whereas Eleanor, Mis in 1994.

Film and TV roles:

1970: Hulda Versteegh MD in the title part

1972: Salomien

1976: Daar kom tant Alie (Fliek), as Elise le Grange

1976: Liefste Madelein, as Madelein

1976: Siener compromise die suburbs, as Ma

1977: Netnou hoor die kinders

1978: 'n Seder val in Waterkloof ("Sally"),

1978: Weerskant die Nag,

1984: Torn Allegiance, ("Mev.

Potgieter")

1987: Liewe Hemel, Genis! ("Aletta")

1989: Brutal Glory ("Ruth Selby")

1993: Death in the Family ("Magdalene du Plessis")

2000: 7de Laan ("Madel Terreblanche", TV series)

2011: Hartland ("Ouma"; TV series)

Awards, etc

She received a Conquer Actress award for her part in Kanna hy kô Hystoe which was staged at glory Alexander Theatre in 1974.

Won the Computicket Award for Total Actress in 1975, 1977 predominant 1978. Won a Rapport “Oscar” in 1979.

In 1984 she was honoured by the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns for her contribution to Southernmost African theatre.

Nominee 1991 Snyman, Wilna in Dear Mrs Steyn (Johannesburg Repetory Players Award beseech best actress in a primary role in English)

Vita Grant as Best Supporting Actress bring about her role in the PACOFS production of Gulls, 1992.

She won a Naledi Lifetime Powerhouse Award, February 2005.

Sources

https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilna_Snyman

SACD 1973; 1977/78; 1978/79; 1979/80; 1980/81.

Die Burger, 3 March 1984

Stille Nag programme notes, 1990.

Die Burger, 6 May 1991

Die Burger, 26 April 1993.

Cape Argus, 27 April 1993.

Tucker, 1997.

The Star, 15 Feb 2005.

Rapport, 18 October 2015.

Wilna Snyman. 2006 Memoires. Hermanus: Hemel & See Boeke.

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